When looking for a place to rent, how do you avoid the dumps? One thing about hotels, is that brand gives you some idea of what you're getting. In most cases, you get a better product with the better names, although abberations happen.

But, with a VR, you're blind. We've rented places locally before, and ended up with better places just through word of mouth, walking the beach and looking at other properties, etc. But, if you don't have that local knoowledge, how do you avoid the run down properties?

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